Cutts late to meeting on morning of Davis' death

Tuesday

Jun 26, 2007 at 12:01 AMJun 26, 2007 at 4:03 PM

The morning that authorities say Jessie M. Davis died, Bobby Cutts Jr. was 90 minutes late for a scheduled meeting with GlenOak High School officials to discuss a coaching position on the football staff.

Todd Porter

The morning that authorities say Jessie M. Davis died, Bobby Cutts Jr. was 90 minutes late for a scheduled meeting with GlenOak High School officials to discuss a coaching position on the football staff.

Cutts was to meet at 9 a.m. June 14 with the school about coaching GlenOak this fall, but he didn’t show up until about 10:30 a.m., a school official said.

“He was an hour and a half late Thursday, and an hour a half late seals your fate,” said GlenOak athletics director Jim Adkins. “After he was late, and after (head coach Scott Garcia) talked to him, Coach Garcia didn’t feel like he had what it takes to be a coach at GlenOak.”

Adkins said he did not know if sheriff’s deputies or the FBI interviewed Garcia about the meeting.

Davis was Cutts’ pregnant girlfriend and the mother of his 2-year-old son Blake. She was last seen on the night of June 13, and her body was found Saturday in a shallow grave in Hampton Hills Metro Park in Summit County. Her nearly 9-month-old fetus, which she was to name Chloe, was in her body.

Cutts made his initial court appearance Monday on double murder charges and is being held in lieu of $5 million bail. A second suspect, Myisha Ferrell, was arraigned on obstruction of justice charges for hindering the investigation. Her bail is set at $500,000.

Cutts spent last season as a volunteer coach at Oakwood Middle School in the Plain Local School District. He graduated from GlenOak High School in 1995 and played football there.

During an interview last week with The Repository, Cutts made mention of not being able to coach because of the media attention in the case. He spoke about his love of coaching prior to the interview as well.

“He would never missed a coaching meeting and this was to maybe move up from the middle school” to coaching ninth grade, a source close to Cutts said.

“He never missed those meetings!”

The Repository spoke with a woman who had a sexual relationship with Cutts. She said Cutts phoned her several times from Champs, a local bar, the evening of June 13 and asked her to meet him there. Cutts left the bar about 12:30 a.m. June 14, and again phoned her at 2 a.m.. The woman – who requested anonymity because she is married with kids -- said she never met up with Cutts. Authorities have spoken with her as well.

The media camped out at Cutts’ Ayrshire Avenue NE home from Wednesday through Saturday. Cutts left the home through a back door Friday and spent that night at a hotel, according to the source, who also said Cutts’ mother, Renee Horne, and two other family members stayed with him.

When the four returned to Cutts’ home Saturday, he met with a close circle of family and friends, and admitted to disposing of Davis’ body, but not killing her, the source said.

Contacted Monday and asked about spending Friday in a hotel, Cutts’ mother said, “I’ve got no comment,” and hung up.